Tracklistings: Lil Wayne’s ‘I Am Not A Human Being II’

Lil Wayne reveals another set of tricks up his sleeve for his upcoming release, I Am Not A Human Being 2. Taking to YoungMoney.com, Weezer lets loose of the album’s tracklisting and the biggest surprises are that we’ve heard a good portion of the songs and it reads like a Wayne and friends album, the YMCMB leader going solo for only three of the fifteen cuts. According to Wayne, that’s by design.

“I have a lot of guests on the album. That’s what’s unusual about the album. I’m usually a two or three feature-type guy. But this album, I have a lot of features because I have a lot of friends, a lot of people that wanted to help out. I just appreciate them all. And I have a lot of different production on it too. I got Juicy J, David Banner, Soulja Boy – and that’s the production.” [The Times-Picayune]

Wayne is a perfect example of what I touched upon in the K-Dot piece. He is a self-titled skater (and claims to have been skating forever – before it was “cool” to skate in the Black/Hip-Hop world), rocks out to rock music, rides “dirt bikes,” dresses weird – the list can go on forever. Anything that separates him from what made him, he embraces.

It is cool to grow (no joke intended for those who see those last words as one) but come on – dude has lost it. 3000 changed up his outward appearance, his [life]style, his tastes… but he never stopped being an absolute BEAST whenever he raps. As I said in the past, Wayne had it in him at one point… but he has been a nonsensical rhymer for as long as he crossed over and realized he could get away with it.

I JUST had a discussion with someone about this over the weekend. He is about to lose his crossover appeal. Watch and see. He puts out so much mediocrity (because he has been able to get away with it) that it catching up with him is just a matter of time. Call Nicki Pop. Call Drizzy “soft” – but at least that dude gives it his all (and it shows – hate or love his music).

Sad that production is what makes Wayne now when it once was his lyrical growth and Fresh. You keep not paying producers – and what are you going to have left? And I would say this to Baby’s face, once the records stop moving units; Wayne is going to see just how badly he was taken advantage of. Slim is cool. Baby is Suge 2.0 – give Wayne just enough to keep him happy, but not nearly what he is owed.

TRA dropping knowledge bombs up in here. To some extent Wayne will always be ok: In the modern age, once you’re an A-lister, you’re pretty much always an A-lister so long as you keep your name out there.

But Wayne did get to where he was by working his ass off. It’s hard to believe that same person thinks he can just quit now.

I do wonder how much the lack of drugs (If he’s still not on drugs) is to blame for his output.